Following on the heels of their work on the infamous Steele dossier, the operatives behind the controversial document began investigating possible links between the Russian government, supporters of the Brexit campaign and the now-defunct data firm, Cambridge Analytica.
As with their dossier work, the dirt-digging effort led by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson has turned up little evidence to support their initial collusion conspiracy theory.
A British information commissioner concluded her investigation into Cambridge Analytica last week, issuing a report that found that the firm played a minimal role in the Brexit campaign. The commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, also said that she did not find “any additional evidence” of Russian links to Cambridge Analytica.
Steele and Simpson’s work on the dossier, which accused the Trump campaign of conspiring with the Kremlin, has been a prominent fixture in the news in the three-plus years since the document was published. But lesser known are their efforts to uncover links between Russia, Cambridge Analytica, the Brexit vote and the Trump campaign.
Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee, wrote in a little noticed passage in his autobiography last year, “Mindf*ck,” that he met with Steele and Simpson in 2018 in the offices of Damian Collins, a member of parliament.
Wylie said that he had obtained a trove of documents and recordings from inside the Leave.EU campaign, which supported the Brexit referendum. Wylie discussed the information during an interview in June 2018 with Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee…
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